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African American literature

...to the Black Arts movement as were poetry and drama, the mythopoeic short stories of Henry Dumas, collected in
Ark of Bones, and Other Stories (1970), and the novels of
John A. Williams, particularly
The Man Who Cried I Am (1967), a roman à clef about a dying black novelist intent on maintaining his political integrity in the face of...